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13 Jul 2013, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending $3.2 billion over five years to implement the Hunger-Free Kids Act, and its annual subsidies for local school lunches are expected to rise by another $1 billion. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 5:22 pm by Claire Mitchell
Department of Agriculture (USDA) charged with regulating the safety and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and egg products, recently approved the Non-GMO Project Verified label claim for meat and liquid egg products. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 10:20 pm by Helena Bottemiller
Department of Agriculture in its review of the proposed deal because of the potential threats to food security and public health, but it’s not clear whether that will happen. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 1:38 pm by WIMS
Department of Agriculture (USDA) and EPA released a comprehensive scientific report on honey bee health. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 9:16 pm by Helena Bottemiller
Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has been requiring meat and poultry plants use Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP, systems since the late 1990s, the details of how exactly plants validate those systems to ensure they work has been a topic of recent debate and increasingly a focus of the agency. [read post]
4 Jul 2013, 7:23 am by Bill Marler
During the preparation, transportation and storage of prepared foods, the organism can multiply to reach a threshold needed to cause infection. [4] The danger posed by the risk of Listeria in ready-to-eat meats has prompted the USDA to declare the bacterium an adulterant in these kinds of meat products and, as a result, to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for the presence of this deadly pathogen. [7, 29] A USDA Baseline Data Collection Program done in 1994 documented Listeria… [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is out with its first “updated guidance” for HACCP systems validation since 1996. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 10:57 am by Michael Markarian
Department of Agriculture today granted permission for a horse slaughter plant to open in New Mexico, and says it plans to grant similar requests to plants in Iowa and Missouri as well.The decision flies in the face of the White House’s rhetoric opposing the slaughter of American horses. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 10:57 am by Michael Markarian
Department of Agriculture today granted permission for a horse slaughter plant to open in New Mexico, and says it plans to grant similar requests to plants in Iowa and Missouri as well. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 12:13 am by Dan Flynn
” Black said the next step is for districts to implement the standards, using USDA’s rule as a baseline. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 11:08 pm by Helena Bottemiller
Department of Agriculture for the first time approved a non-GMO label claim for meat products, Chipotle began voluntarily labeling menu items containing GMO ingredients online, and, perhaps most notably, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted last week to give the U.S. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:02 am by Todd Janzen
This may come as news to some, but the reality is that climate change policy has already impacted farm policy through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).Earlier this year, the USDA issued a report on the effects of global climate change on United States’ agricultural production. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 12:24 pm by Jodi Ginsberg
Department of Agriculture has proposed a rule change that will reduce federal oversight of poultry processing plants while allowing processors to speed up their kill lines. 1. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 12:14 am by Mischa Popoff
“We don’t see that organic standards necessarily overlap with food safety standards,” said organic program manager Brenda Book with the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA). [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:30 pm by James Hobbs
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to announce the development of a “proposed rule that would cover Internet breeders under the Animal Welfare Act. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 12:27 am by Helena Bottemiller
Department of Agriculture, would fund several food and agriculture programs for fiscal year 2014. [read post]
16 Jun 2013, 10:18 pm by Heidi Parsons
Department of Agriculture (USDA) green-lighted it for use in U.S. in May, 2011. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 9:19 pm by Dan Flynn
” Nor am I really sure how the meat inspectors are using PHIS today or just how useful it is. [read post]